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3 hours ago, scott kirkpatrick said:

But has it fixed the bug in which you wind and wind but the film doesn't actually move?

Unfortunately not, Scott, that would need a software update for the User, which hasn't been released yet.  There was some thought of including the User software update in a vaccine but that's been dropped now so we'll have to keep checking manually that the sprocket has meshed with the film for the time being.

Pete. 

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3 hours ago, Edax said:

I took a look inside the firmware file and to my big surprise noticed that there is experimental code with respect to rangefinder window wipers... 😀

Give the deveopers some time.   They have to include a "demist" or "clean" action. A wiper spray could be incorporated with the wind lever.!,  The water reservoir could replace the battery.   Then the camera will be truly manual.  I'm only making a suggestion but keep watching!

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7 hours ago, faxao said:

The idea of going through the cumbersome procedure needed anytime a firmware update is done to keep the sequential file numbering makes me puzzled, specially if no relevant or significant improvement is in sight for my "vintage" M10

Seems to me that the M is the model in which maintaining file numbering is not cumbersome.  Put into the camera a memory card with the last file taken before the firmware update, then take a picture, and sequence numbering will continue from that file.  Isn’t that so?

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24 minutes ago, erudolph said:

Seems to me that the M is the model in which maintaining file numbering is not cumbersome.  Put into the camera a memory card with the last file taken before the firmware update, then take a picture, and sequence numbering will continue from that file.  Isn’t that so?

You're right, my bad. I was mixing up things with firmware update on my other Leica Q 🙃

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1 hour ago, rramesh said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this perspective correction only applied to JPGs or to DNGs as well.

Regardless of settings, an M10-P, -R, or -M now writes the calculated angle settings (the four corners of the PC "window") into metadata in case you want to use it  once you reach LightRoom or ACR.  Since the information is stored in meta data it can affect the DNG file.  If you shoot only DNG with PC on, and review the image in camera, the jpeg that is created for the review will show the corrections.

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3 minutes ago, scott kirkpatrick said:

Regardless of settings, an M10-P, -R, or -M now writes the calculated angle settings (the four corners of the PC "window") into metadata in case you want to use it  once you reach LightRoom or ACR.  Since the information is stored in meta data it can affect the DNG file.  If you shoot only DNG with PC on, and review the image in camera, the jpeg that is created for the review will show the corrections.

And yet, when opening a PCed file from the M10M in ACR and setting the Geometry module to Auto, there is no correction visible and no guide lines appear.  So,, it'd seem Adobe is not reading this metadata in Monochrom files?

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2 hours ago, erudolph said:

And yet, when opening a PCed file from the M10M in ACR and setting the Geometry module to Auto, there is no correction visible and no guide lines appear.  So,, it'd seem Adobe is not reading this metadata in Monochrom files?

Unfortunately, PC does not work for M10M at the moment, unless you shoot JPG.

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On 1/29/2021 at 3:26 AM, Nowhereman said:

I haven't been able to find anything on the M10-P having acceleration sensors. I thought that acceleration sensors are used for IBIS. I've seen posts — don't recall where — that the M10-P and the M10 have the same sensors. 
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The M10-P clearly does have an accelerometer, since that's exactly how these things are implemented at the hardware level. These chips measure acceleration in three dimensions and a part of every modern cell phone and fitness tracker. I don't know whether the electronics of the base M10 has an accelerometer. Perhaps the chip is on the circuit board, and not enabled. But if it's not in the electronics, there's no way to add firmware features that require accurate orientation information. If there are photos of M10 vs M10-P circuit boards, it'll be easy to tell.

IBIS implementations will also have a gyro (maybe more than one) in addition to an accelerometer.

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3 hours ago, scott kirkpatrick said:

Regardless of settings, an M10-P, -R, or -M now writes the calculated angle settings (the four corners of the PC "window") into metadata in case you want to use it  once you reach LightRoom or ACR.  Since the information is stored in meta data it can affect the DNG file.  If you shoot only DNG with PC on, and review the image in camera, the jpeg that is created for the review will show the corrections.

It'd be interesting if Leica would also include metadata about how the camera was moving while the shutter was open. This could enable automatic blur removal in post-processing.

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It is obvious that the plain M10 has at least a basic binary tilt sensor - to distinguish vertical pictures from horizontal pictures. Otherwise all pictures would come into Lightroom (or other such software) as horizontal pictures.

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9 minutes ago, adan said:

It is obvious that the plain M10 has at least a basic binary tilt sensor - to distinguish vertical pictures from horizontal pictures. Otherwise all pictures would come into Lightroom (or other such software) as horizontal pictures.

Yes, but here's the sort of information that the new firmware puts into a DNG file:  

xmpDSA:PitchAngle="-9.2930002213"  xmpDSA:RollAngle="10.6409997940" 

in addition to the four corner positions in the perspective Frame.  Even if only 2 or 3 of those digits are  accurate, that requires two separate fairly sensitive attitude sensors.

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3 hours ago, SrMi said:

Unfortunately, PC does not work for M10M at the moment, unless you shoot JPG.

I took a look at an M10-M file with PC enabled.  The metadata looks correct (and the jpg is indeed corrected), so I think there is something that Adobe hasn't turned on  yet.

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31 minutes ago, scott kirkpatrick said:

Yes, but here's the sort of information that the new firmware puts into a DNG file:  

xmpDSA:PitchAngle="-9.2930002213"  xmpDSA:RollAngle="10.6409997940" 

in addition to the four corner positions in the perspective Frame.  Even if only 2 or 3 of those digits are  accurate, that requires two separate fairly sensitive attitude sensors.

Sure - that's what I'd expect from the "advanced" M10-R/P/M. (or a Typ 240, for that matter, if appropriate firmware was available).

I was just commenting on the apparent beliefs by some that it is a black-and-white question - "has tilt sensor/has no tilt sensor." There are different varieties of tilt sensors, and M digitals have had at least a basic horizontal/vertical sensor going back to the M8. The cameras with visible level displays have a more sophisticated tilt sensor.

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